How to format your references using the Business Ethics: A European Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Business Ethics: A European Review. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Rubbia, C. (2011). Simon van der Meer (1925-2011). Nature, 472(7342), 170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fujii, M. S., & Portegies Zwart, S. (2011). The origin of OB runaway stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6061), 1380–1383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishikawa, H., Ma, Z., & Barber, G. N. (2009). STING regulates intracellular DNA-mediated, type I interferon-dependent innate immunity. Nature, 461(7265), 788–792.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lieberman, E., Michel, J.-B., Jackson, J., Tang, T., & Nowak, M. A. (2007). Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language. Nature, 449(7163), 713–716.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Holloway, M., & Nwaoha, C. (2012). Dictionary of Industrial Terms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ruano, A. E., & Várkonyi-Kóczy, A. R. (Eds.). (2011). New Advances in Intelligent Signal Processing (Vol. 372). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Edwards, D., Deed, C., & Edwards, A. (2014). Learning in Technologically-Mediated Spaces in Open-Plan Settings. In V. Prain, P. Cox, C. Deed, D. Edwards, C. Farrelly, M. Keeffe, … Z. Yager (Eds.), Adapting to Teaching and Learning in Open-Plan Schools (pp. 79–93). Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Business Ethics: A European Review.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 1). Antibiotic Resistance Now A Global Threat According To Latest WHO Report Retrieved from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antibiotic-resistance-now-global-threat-according-latest-who-report/.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. (1990). Treasury ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information (No. IMTEC-91-8FS). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

O’Leary, J. J. (2012). Telling the story: Teaching leaders the art of storytelling and its impact on individuals and the organization (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Koblin, J. (2016, October 18). After Negotiations With NBC, Billy Bush Is Officially Off ‘Today’. New York Times, p. A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Rubbia, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Fujii & Portegies Zwart, 2011; Rubbia, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fujii & Portegies Zwart, 2011)
Three authors: (Ishikawa, Ma, & Barber, 2009)
6 or more authors: (Lieberman, Michel, Jackson, Tang, & Nowak, 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Business Ethics: A European Review
Abbreviation	Bus. Ethics
ISSN (print)	0962-8770
ISSN (online)	1467-8608
Scope	Business and International Management Economics and Econometrics